Nursing Group Proactively Confronts Difficulties Arising on a Multicultural Campus
A cadre of UCSF School of Nursing faculty members is leading the way to create a more welcoming environment for all people.

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Give to UCSFA cadre of UCSF School of Nursing faculty members is leading the way to create a more welcoming environment for all people.
UCSF Children's Hospital will celebrate children and their families at the 13th annual Pediatric Transplant Picnic
One way to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in faculty positions is by opening the doors of opportunity in academia as early as possible and mentoring underrepresented minorities once they are here.
A national analysis of physician office and emergency department records shows that the types of skin infections caused by community-acquired MRSA doubled in the eight-year study period, with the highest rates seen among children and in urban emergency rooms.
People who have discussed their end-of-life care wishes with family, friends, and physicians before they are in need of such care are much more likely to have taken the next step of filling out an advance directive, according to a study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
In resource-limited settings where tuberculosis is a major cause of mortality among HIV patients and where a multidrug-resistant TB epidemic is emerging, researchers are pressing for approaches to integrate TB prevention and treatment into HIV care and treatment.
UCSF Science Café has begun exporting its online model to the world by creating a site for science communicators who want to develop their own version of UCSF's award-winning web weekly.
More than 3,000 attendees are now descending on Barcelona for the fourth Euroscience Open Forum.
Young adults with a low-level elevation in their blood pressure ("Prehypertension") before age 35 are more likely to have calcium in their coronary arteries later in life, predisposing them to a higher risk of strokes and heart attacks, according to a UCSF study...
Delivering drugs inside the brain just got easier...
The UCSF School of Nursing has received its second $4.25 million, five-year grant from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research to continue the work of the Center for Personal Assistance Services (PAS).
UCSF Medical Center ranks among the nation’s top 10 premier hospitals and is the best in the Bay Area, according to the new 2008 “America’s Best Hospitals” survey conducted by “U.S. News & World Report.”